On the 16th of October thousands (estimates of 10,000 or more) of Rohingya, including many children and elderly people, crossed a small river from Myanmar and made their way through rice paddies toward the village of Palangkhali a distance of +/- 5 km in extreme heat. The Bangladesh border guards would not allow the refugees to enter the village and at the time of this captioning the X thousand Rohingya were waiting for access to dry land in rice paddies near Palangkhali wtih driving tropical rain coming at night.